A long-awaited transitional ruling council was sworn in Thursday in violence-wracked Haiti, while the Caribbean nation's embattled prime minister Ariel Henry submitted his formal resignation.
The nine-member council will be tasked with naming a new prime minister and helping set up a new government ahead of planned elections. Henry announced his resignation in March amid a wave of attacks by gangs in Haiti’s capital.
The White House welcomed the swearing-in on Thursday of a transitional governing council in violence-plagued Haiti, hailing it as major progress toward holding elections.
A formal ceremony to install Haiti's transitional ruling council will be held early Thursday, the prime minister's office said, as the violence-wracked nation moves to form an interim government.